A dhamakedaar misfire Cast: Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, Jack...
A dhamakedaar misfire
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, Jackie Shroff, Ravi Kishen
Rating: NA
Director Rohit Shetty’s much-awaited cop universe is back with Singham Again. A multi-starrer (most of the actors are actually in extended cameos), the only redeeming feature is that you do not take the film seriously at all. What was Rohit Shetty even thinking while making this film? He is such a commercial and masala maker, but here, he has completely lost the plot. He mixes Ramayana with the story in such a way that it sometimes ends up like propaganda for the ruling government.
The film starts off with Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) arresting (so, so easily that it is very hard to digest!) the dreaded terrorist Omar Hafiz (Jackie Shroff from Sooryavanshi). The latter warns Singham that someone from his team will come to create havoc. Two years pass. Singham’s wife Avni (Kareena Kapoor Khan) who works in the M/O Culture is staging a drama on Ramayana which will go on for 9 days. During this time, Singham comes to know that Omar’s men are smuggling drugs from Sri Lanka to India. Singham asks Madurai district DCP Shakti Shetty who calls herself Lady Singham (Deepika Padukone) to arrest the traffickers. She does so but their boss the deadly and scary Danger Lanka (Arjun Kapoor) arrives and burns the entire police station down and frees his men. Not only this he plans Avni’s abduction cleverly by tempting her to visit Rameshwaram. Singham is furious and swears revenge. He is aided in his mission by Lady Singham, Simmba (Ranveer Singh), Sooryavanshi (Akshay Kumar), and Satya Bali (Tiger Shroff) who makes a sudden entry.
Ajay Devgn has just one expression in the entire movie. Kareena Kapoor Khan makes up by her screen presence. Arjun Kapoor surprises us by giving a rocking villainous performance. Ranveer Singh tries hard to up-the-ante the comic quotient but goes overboard. His mimicking of Ajay and Akshay though is worth a mention. He also cracks jokes on himself. Tiger does what he does best - fight like a dream. Deepika Padukone does well in action scenes. Akshay Kumar is hardly there. Jackie Shroff doesn’t know what he is doing in the film. Ravi Kishen (minister Raj Jaishankar) is okay. Dayanand Shetty (Daya) and Shweta Tiwari (Devika) as special CID officers in Singham’s team are fair. There was no need for Salman Khan’s three-second cameo as Chulbul Pandey in the post-credits. He looked totally off (the reasons are obvious). Special mention must be made of Rajshri Nair playing Satya’s mother. She is excellent and gives a seeti-maar cameo performance.
The story draws parallels with the Ramayana and becomes laughable most of the time. There film is actually about how to take unapologetic cinematic liberties and Rohit Shetty proves that. You have to just go, sit, clap if you want to, and come back.
Singham Again is a massy film having a wafer-thin storyline with an extremely dull and weak soundtrack (thank God there are no songs barring the new theme song Singham) and propaganda to boast of. The film is high on action and low on quotient. So go if you need to see the multi-starrer with all the stars coming together in the climax wearing black.
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